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The First Landing on Wrangel Island

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The First Landing on Wrangel Island

Irving Collins Rosse

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On a remote Arctic island north of Siberia, a ship's company set foot where almost no one had. Irving Rosse records the first landing on Wrangel Island and his observations of the far northern peoples, their diet, customs, and hard adaptations. A rare firsthand report from the top of the world. Step ashore on one of the Arctic's loneliest islands.

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18 chapters

  1. 1THE FIRST LANDING ON WRANGEL ISLAND,
  2. 2WITH SOME
  3. 3REMARKS ON THE NORTHERN INHABITANTS.
  4. 4IRVING C. ROSSE, M.D.
  5. 5General Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants.
  6. 6PHYSICAL PECULIARITIES.
  7. 7ESKIMO APPETITES.
  8. 8ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT.
  9. 9LINGUISTIC PECULIARITIES.
  10. 10ESKIMO DIETETICS.
  11. 11SOCIAL AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS.
  12. 12PERSONAL ORNAMENTATION.
  13. 13DIVERSIONS.
  14. 14ART INSTINCT.
  15. 15COMBATIVENESS.
  16. 16MENTAL CHARACTER AND CAPACITY.
  17. 17THE MORAL SENSE AND THE RELIGIOUS INSTINCT.
  18. 18FOOTNOTES:
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